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[60 Second Mini-games]

Three problems with guess the object

If you guess them too quickly, the next one never gets large enough to see what it is.

Focus should automatically be put in the text field.

Not all of us know every greek character.

I'm gonna be honest, I didn't like this game.

[Stickya Adventurya]

This game is terrible

It's not hard because it's difficult, it's hard because it's grossly unfair. The simple fact that you can die by respawning makes this a terrible game. The player MUST have a few seconds of invincible time upon respawn. I died on respawn 6 times in a row on the smoking bubbles level: that is unreasonable. Please do some research in to what makes games fun.

[Spewer]

Very nice game

There are only two problems I was able to find, and one unexpected behaviour. On "The Crux" I was somehow able to trigger the top-right switch from the top-left corner. Weird. The other problem is that there seems to bea dead end: You can't return to the menu after doing ...well, anything involving levels, really. After acquiring my Perfectionist medal I had to redo Culmination to get to the menu.

The unexpected behaviour is that on the level "A Simple Plan" I had black vomit against a wall, and when I slid down to the edge of the vomit I slid down between it and the wall to my doom, rather than staying wedged in the corner as I was expecting.

Overall, a very entertaining and original game. Nicely done.

[Overhead Kick Champion]

Hard to control

Often the ball will arc in too high and I won't even get a chance to hit it. It doesn't help that I can't move too far either way when I do my kick, or else I may be able to reach it. Neat idea, just needs some improvement in the playability department.

Also it would be nice if it remembered your last team picks so you didn't have to re-enter it each time. Maybe give us the choice of whether to switch?

[Barbarian Bob [Remake]]

Okay for what it is...

but at least one of the problems you think you fixed isn't actually fixed. I finished the game, entered the cheat menu, selected some things, unselected those things, exited the cheat menu and earned 4 more achievements, but they do not show up on my NG account. In the game it shows I have all achievements except InvinciBob, Warlock Holmes and Barbarian King, but on my NG account it only shows Rags to Riches, which is the one I earned the first time I played.

Also it seems you can't earn the Carbon Copy achievement as Terrence. Parried a bunch of times in a row, didn't get anything for it. Had to redo it as Bob. Incidentally, if you quit out as Terrence, when you restart you'll be Terrence, but Terrence's clothes will still be on the wall. To get back to being Bob you have to grab his clothes and then put them back. So I suppose that means Terrence was naked, which is something entirely different.

Sorry this review ended up being a bug report. Not my intention. Hope knowing about these bugs helps!

Skribble-Style responds:

No, no, don't be sorry! Without the help of people like yourself, Bob would still be bugged up like a mofo.

Many thanks for the comment dude, it helps a lot!

[Sonny]

I like it

Doctor Herregods is ridiculous. Heals at 99% regardless of how much focus he has, and goes right through your Intervention shield. Figuring out how to beat him is going to destroy me. And the guide to act 4 is offline (or else you need to be a member to see that forum?) so I can't even get any tips.

Anyway, the only thing I think is wrong with the game is that it's too short. I'd expect a game like this to take a week or more to complete, but I finished it with my Destroyer in just a few hours, thinking that the end of act 3 was going to be just a break in the action with the next act having a bunch more equipment, maybe finding the tape player at some point... you get the idea. It's also unfortunate that the Destroyer doesn't get a 2nd weapon option, but I guess that's part of the class.

Excellent game. Hope the next one's even better!

[Thumb Buster]

Heh

Oddly satisfying

[GlueFO 2.0]

Very nice

All my 10 are belong to you.

Only three requests I'd make:

1) When you earn two awards at once, an indication that you did so. I got Multi-Split 3 on the same shot as 25,000 points in Older Skool, and thought I didn't get it until I checked on the Awards screen.
2) Some kind of indication of when you earn an award while playing a challenge. I got Evil Combo 3 on the 30 evil GlueFOs challenge, and had to double-check on the Awards screen to make sure because there was no indication at the time that I'd gotten it.
3) NG Medals. It'll suck that I'll have to get all the awards again, but I definitely think it would be worth it.

Also, to people complaining about the time bonus not really counting because of an enemy taking his sweet time to appear, either level 11 or 12 (I'm pretty sure it's 12 - the dark green one if it's always the same colour order) has no evil GlueFOs, so you can pick up your time bonus awards on that one.

Anyone have any idea where that hidden award is? Or is it perhaps just acquiring the rest of them?

[Portal Defenders]

Good game, but I don't like it

Taking away 100% of your score when you're hit by a saw blade might be the biggest dick move any game has ever done, especially considering how frequently they throw them and that you don't get any invulnerable time after recovering from the first one. I literally got hit by three in a row with zero chance to avoid them.

Basically, there's challenging, and then there's frustrating. To top up the insane difficulty, it kept not responding to the A key, which meant instead of attacking I'd just stand there and get hit. IT'S HARD TO WIN WHEN YOU'RE NOT ALLOWED TO ATTACK. I didn't find this game fun at all, and I will not play it again in its current state. Considering I'm the kind of guy to tell people to stop whining about games being hard, that's saying something.